Topic: Absolutely random thoughts

@sorteddan @LN78 Top one, nice one, sorted.

@JohnnyShoulder Your avatar is from the "Music for the Jilted Generation" cover isn't it? You know what we're talking about.

@LN78 Correct! It did bemuse a few folks on here who wondered wtf it was. It is also a good snapshot of how I feel. Every. Single. Morning.

@JohnnyShoulder Sounds like quite the.... Experience. I'll get my coat.

With intersecting life spans and a common home state (Ohio) the first man to fly an aeroplane, Orville Wright and the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong could easily have met one another but apparently never did.

@LN78 🤯
You just sent me down a large rabbit hole! 😅
I found that curious and had to spend a little internet research on that nugget. I learned a lot. But yes — although Armstrong was only about 17-18 yr. old when O. Wright died, he was already training in piloting and showing keen interest and aptitude in the field, so it would be plausible that he would have sought out a meeting with one of the fathers of flight. Of course Armstrong would be a complete unknown and a teen at the time and so such a meeting would probably not have been granted. Interesting, indeed.

I also was interested to learn that much of the Wright brothers life was spent fighting lawsuits about their flight invention ideas being used by other companies without compensation. The Wikipedia article mentions that this distraction away from research and development could have contributed to the stagnation of innovation that resulting in European superiority in airplane manufacturing during WWI. So I guess the American penchant for litigation goes back a long time. In fact they surmise that brother Wilbur’s early death at age 45 was largely related to his over exhaustion with excess travel and stress related to all the lawsuits.

The quadrality of cow.

@lolwhatno I didn’t even read the removed comment. I was just having some fun off the back of yours. Seriously though, four legs AND four stomachs. It’s wild.

To play Devil’s advocate, I’m pretty sure that Anti-Matter having English as a second language resulted in a little bit of an accident. I’m not certain, as it’s very hard to tell sometimes with him, but I don’t think he actually meant y’know, shagging Pokemon when he said ‘intimate relationship’, the gist I got was more companionship. Again though, it’s always hard to tell with him.

@nessisonett he's had me on ignore for ages now but I must admit I do occasionally log out when I see he's posted on the forum as it's usually various degrees of interesting!! lol

@lolwhatno
And F those peoples for making harmless / normal things into something bloody scary or really negative.
They are really evil peoples and I have zero respect with them.

Never mind. I guess Anti-Matter was wanting to shag Pokémon after all.

Um.... 😟
I want to ask.
Is having crushed with fictional characters (the anthromorphic creatures) are considered as inappropriate things on this website?
Sorry to ask and I'm sorry if I have to confess my secret things.

@lolwhatno according to the game's wiki it does.

Had a random thought at work today:

These days, I have more fun buying games than playing games.

That's literally where I'm at in life now lol. I just don't have much time for gaming but I certainly have the time to buy games. It doesn't help either that I have an income now, which means I'll be buying even more games in the future.

But it's genuinely addicting to browse through games. I kinda understand now people who love shopping, just for the sake of it. It's fun lol.

@LtSarge
I enjoy looking through the weekly PS Store sales, finding a bunch of cheap games I know little about and theb reading reviews on them all to decide which ones I want to buy. Like you, I tend to buy more than I've got time to play so I've had to make a conscious effort not to do so in recent months.

It's a weird tendency isn't it?

@LtSarge @sorteddan I can relate. There is a rush associated with finding a good deal. And it can be therapeutic to spend money to reduce stress sometimes. It is a weird tendency, but I justify it as an acceptable alternative to other less healthy ways to reduce stress. 😄

@Th3solution Speaking of which, I meant to ask you for your thoughts on "Immortals Fenyx Rising". I saw a PS5 copy for well under a tenner at the weekend and was tempted to buy it on a whim - problem being that I've variously read that it's little more than a reskin of "Assassin's Creed:Odyssey" or a fairly blatant, half-arsed ripoff of "Zelda:BotW". What did you make of it in the end? I'm not a fan of the Ubisoft icon checklist open world model but I'd be happy to spend a few quid on a halfway decent "Zelda" clone, even if it does end up sitting on my shelf for a while

@sorteddan @Th3solution Yeah I definitely feel like buying games gives me bursts of happiness and it's actually helping me stay motivated at work. I didn't feel like that as much before since I'd just buy games whenever they'd go on sale. But now I want to buy them just for the sake of it.

@LtSarge I know plenty of people who drop lots more money on their other hobbies, with similar outcomes — having tons of things they don’t really use but enjoy having. Extra sets of golf clubs, a bunch of unused camping equipment, cars that don’t run and sit in the garage to tinker with, gym memberships never taken advantage of, etc, etc. Even foodies who think nothing of dropping hundreds of dollars a week on food and drink where 2 hours later the only thing left is the memory of how it tasted.

@LN78 I wish I had more to tell, but I got derailed from Immortals. And perhaps that itself is telling. But honestly I was really enjoying myself until I came across GT7, which really took me away, and then I found myself wanting some shorter experiences on the side, so I haven’t yet gone back to Immortals in earnest.

Since I’ve not played Zelda, I can’t speak to how well it functions as a BotW clone, but my 10-12 hours with it do feel like what I think BotW would be like if it had a satirical Greek mythology backdrop. I’ve read conflicting opinions about the humor, but personally I really like the mockery and parody it has. It’s a fresh take on the Ubisoft open world genre from that standpoint, so bears very little resemblance to Assassin’s Creed tonally speaking. Still — it’s a map full of quest markers and checklists, in the end. So if you don’t like the sandbox setup overloaded with distractions and side activities, collectathons, and random puzzle based shrines (or whatever they’re called) then it might not be your jam.

For under a tenner I think it’s a great deal, with probably 40-60 hrs of entertaining content. I’m playing on PS5, and the 60 fps is nice, but there isn’t much else that grabs me as ‘next gen’ graphically speaking. Partly that is due to the more cartoonish art design.

I think the gameplay is basically what you expect it will be, so it will come down to the narrative setting and whether you mind a lot of levity in your adventure games.